Bulgae is Latin for budget, money, purse, wallet, etc. We will focus on the meaning of budget for this application. The idea here is to create an online budgeting application which is easy to use, simple, and enormously powerful. Budgets tell a lot about how we spend our money, how we allocate our spending can shed some light on our habits. The aim here is to enlighten you and show you where you could improve your spending habits.
The uses the following technologies:
- Mongo for the database
- Passport for the authentication
- Vue for the view rendering
- NodeJS as the server
In addition, it uses the following for the front-end:
- Bulma for the CSS library
- Font Awesome for awesome fonts
This Mongo database is set up to run in Docker, with Mongo and Mongo Express.
Start your Docker service, then run docker compose up.
The project is set up to use root and example as the username and password for this sample application.
You can modify this in the docker-compose.yaml and the settings.js files as you see fit.
Once you have started the Mongo instance (see Docker Compose),
run npm run start to start the application. Access the page at: localhost:3000
Several components have broken over the last three years with general updates and haven't been maintained.
With that in mind, the overall project works, but the UI could use an overhaul as several elements have broken with general updates.
For example, clicking the + icon should render a popup for entering an item into the database, and it doesn't currently work properly.